Nearly thirty years after Princess Diana's death, her brother Earl Spencer has surfaced a claim that cuts to the heart of an old wound: that King Charles, in the days before Diana's funeral, dismissed her legacy with the prediction she would soon be forgotten. The allegation, drawn from a forthcoming memoir, arrives at a moment when the royal family is already navigating illness, estrangement, and the long unresolved question of how history will judge its treatment of the people's princess. Buckingham Palace has responded not with denial but with the suggestion that grief distorts memory — a r